Re: linux & Oracle -- best combination

guess i'm spoiled being able to grab darn near anything that oracle has
from technet.

joe
>>> brian.mcgraw_at_infinity-insurance.com 08/22/01 11:00AM
>>>True, but now RedHat pushes it as the 'Red Hat
Database'...<A
href="http://www.redhat.com/products/software/database/">http://www.redhat.com/products/software/database/Christopher
Spence wrote:> PostGresSQL has been out for years, and is not RedHat
specific, all> distributions have included it.>> "Do not
criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way> when
you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes.">>
Christopher R. Spence> Oracle DBA> Phone: (978) 322-5744>
Fax: (707) 885-2275>> Fuelspot> 73
Princeton Street> North, Chelmsford 01863>>>
-----Original Message-----> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 5:36
PM> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L>> Correct me
if I'm wrong, but wasn't Red Hat Oracle's preferred Linux> distribution,
right up until the time they announced the availability of the> Red Hat
Database (PostgreSQL)?>> Brian>> Christopher Spence
wrote:>> > I would be curious to see these tests going forward,
seeing as RedHat> > support is difficult to do with 9i and such.
And suse now being> > Oracle's perfered linux. I wonder if these
results have changed. I> > never really played with Oracle on
Linux, but if I ever had to, I> > would be curious.>
>> > "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their
shoes, that> > way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and
have their> > shoes."> >> > Christopher R.
Spence> > Oracle DBA> > Phone: (978) 322-5744> >
Fax: (707) 885-2275> >> > Fuelspot>
> 73 Princeton Street> > North, Chelmsford 01863>

> About a year ago, I was working for a company
as a Linux systems> > engineer (Read as: Tech guy doing sales
support). Most of our> > customers wanted Linux systems, and it
was my responsibility to> > provide them the correct combination of
Linux and hardware to meet> > their needs. I had an ISO 9002
compliance to maintain as I provided> > testing and supporting data to
our clients.> >> > My first test was RedHat linux 6.1 with
Oracle 8.1.5. I don't have> > the benchmarks any more, but it
worked the best.> >> > SCO Unix was bought by Caldera Linux
and is not yet being implemented> > to the full capability
(IMHO).> >> > Mandrake, SuSe, Storm were all tested as
well, And had less> > satisfactory performance and
reliability.> >> > Slackware 7 was the next best solution,
followed by TurboLinux 6.> >> > All of these configurations
were tested on the same machine,> > completely formatted and the same
installation performed on each test> > cycle.> >>
> I hope this is helpful information.> >> > Daniel
Curry> > Systems Administrator> > CGtime, Inc.> >
625 Second Street> > Suite 201> > San Francisco, CA
94107> > ph: 415-348-6516> > fx: 415-348-6505> >
cell: 510-304-7889> >> > -----Original Message----->
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:36 AM> > To: Multiple recipients
of list ORACLE-L> >> > Lisa> >> > SuSe
is the best so I have been told. I am about to install 8i on 7.1> >
and another guy here is installing 9i on 7.2.> >> > Totally
untested on my behalf as I haven't started yet but that is the> > best
I have been told.> >> > Probably of no use whatsoever
!!!> >> > Lee> > -----Original
Message-----> > Sent: 21 August 2001 16:51> > To: Multiple
recipients of list ORACLE-L> > Sorry everyone, I know you were just
discussing this recently. What is> > the most stable combination of
Oracle & Linux? What would you> > recommend? I want to
say the consensus was SCO Linux but I don't> > quite remember. Thank
you> > Lara Croft> > Oracle Database Administrator>
> Fairfield Resorts, Inc> >> >> > The

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